Multi-lingual Project Owner for Eastern Europe

Zürich - ZH - 8055

Multi-lingual Project Owner for Eastern Europe

ABOUT TRACKTICSTRACKTICS is are an award winning, innovative wearable startup. We enable every football player and team to track, analyse and improve performance on the football pitch. We’ve developed a wearable device and created beautiful apps for our powerful data analytics. For the first time, players and coaches from all levels have easy access to metrics like distance covered, number of sprints and tactical heatmaps. For better practice planning, player management and boosted motivation.

THE POSITIONWe seek a passionate, multi-lingual Project leader with academic background and technical affinity to strengthen our TRACKTICS team. You will mainly work with our CTO, Product and Business Development Responsibles to drive the internationalization of our brand and market coverage to Russia in light of the FIFA 2018 World Cup. While we are growing quickly in Switzerland, the football industry requires us to internationalise quickly efficiently. Furthermore, you manage outsourcing partners in Eastern Europe. We provide an exciting opportunity to work internationally and at the interface different business divisions. You will work in a dynamic environment and be a big part of our success as a fast growing startup.

YOUR ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES- Drive Business Development Projects, with a current major emphasis on the internalization to the Russian Market due to the FIFA 2018 World Cup in Russia. Establish and foster relationships in the Russion Market for fast expansion- Manage and enable efficient in-house communication between product engineering and business divisions to guarantee constant internal know-how exchange and market proximity when developing new features. Tasks include requirement elicitation and specification in close collaboration with sales, support and operations representatives and their translation to engineering tasks in view of a mid-term product roadmap - Co-manage existing outsourcing partners for software development in Macedonia- Support the build up and management of end-to-end QA processes for core company products. Co-prepare and lead the execution of outsourcing strategy including knowledge transfer to an expert partner

YOUR PROFILE

- MSc in a quantitative field within Engineering or Natural Sciences- Some project management experience, ideally in the realm of internationalisation and business development- Strong time management skills, with ability to meet strict deadlines- Strong language skills (reading and writing) in English (our inhouse language) and Russian, ideally also German. Any knowledge of Serbian or Macedonian is a plus!- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills- Experience in working in wearable-technology related companies and startups- Technical affinity, ideally accompanied by basic software development skills- Ability to balance conflicting requirements, changing priorities, a diverse group of stakeholders as well as different project-related issues- Ideally some experience in QA processes or the ability to acquire them quickly